Here are the verses:
"(Antichrists) have gone out from among us." 1 John
Hi friend, John says plainly from where Antichrist arises. It is what Spurgeon and every single other Protestant believed about Antichrist until just about 100 years ago when Protestantism began to go insane and start believing Jesuit lies about some future Antichrist at the "last 7 years of tribulation".
1 John 2:18-19 KJV
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would [no doubt] have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us."
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The verse you posted refers to disciples of Christ that were following Him as a teacher but then decided to fall away. In fact, this verse is often used by those who believe in eternal security, this is not referring to the anti-Christ.
Also Paul warns of the same:
1 Thessalonians 2:3-4 KJV
"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (the day of Jesus' Second Coming and our Gathering to Him) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed..."
"Falling away" is literally the Greek "Apostasia" from which we get the English "apostasy" which of course means "turning away from truth".
From where does apostasy originate? In error that exists outside the church or the truth which resides within the church?
"...the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God."
The "temple" is from the Greek "naos" which is the same Greek word Paul uses over and over to refer to the church. They may rebuild a temple in Jerusalem and start offering lambs and all that but such as that would be a national middle finger in the face of God by a national rejection of the Lamb of God who was sacrificed 2,000 years ago, and would never be referred to by God or Paul as the "temple of God" - the "temple of God" in which Antichrist arose and now sits is the church.
I learned some years ago that Jesus would not return until the temple as rebuilt.
Do not know the scripture on this.
Paul further states:
Acts 20:29-30 KJV
"For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them."
Does this not refer to false doctrine that has, indeed, entered into the Church in this present day? Draw away disciples after them --- this does not sound like the anti-Christ to me. I understand that he will turn the world to himself by making the world believe that he will solve all their prblems.